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united nations assembly is wrapping up after a week of speeches because the u.n. turned into a high school where leaders insulted and mocked each other's countries while addressing the assembly polls are also parallels. and jesse jackson frees two americans behind bars in africa we'll ask him about the case and we'll have him weigh in on the twenty twelve presidential race in a live in an interview and just ahead. and we live in a high tech world of e-mail smartphones and chatting but do you know how do you how
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much the u.s. government is tracking your every move our t. has a privacy check for you is straight ahead. it's friday september twenty eighth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . all right well the annual u.n. general assembly is just wrapping up in new york all the usual characters made their fiery speeches. but this speech is a union that has been found on the principles of cooperation has certainly changed over the years becoming more of a spotlight for a blame game than a forum for open discussion and open ideas are to correspondent on a sauciest draws the parallels between the u.n.g.a. in a high school reunion take a look. september. kids are back to school
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gossiping in the hallways striking a pose for the yearbook as the principal meets and greets them if you please fill up the classroom certainly the u.n. is a little bit like one of those general assemblies we used to have a nice school just with better uniforms here attendance is not mandatory and you can't be expelled and attractive feature of the ivy league school is actually barack obama president of the united states of america there are the schoolyard bullies you'd like to think that all the nations of the world are equal but it's the united states that pays twenty five percent of the bill here and the united states can decide for example if your you have to be from iran forty of your diplomats can't come because we won't give you reason so there is a bullying process that's going on here the mean kids may think they run the show they're the ones that are the most superficial as well so we're always hearing these false promises and and statements made and a lot of rhetoric going on that's why
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a coalition of countries is holding the iranian government while the popular kids try to create outsiders the bad guys are having none of it and fight right back to the bad kids you know in iran aman to enjoy the. others that chavez's and those that always seem to make statements that that embarrass others or are that others walk out on this show you kids make up the bulk of the school but go largely ignored the general assembly the largest class unlike the security council attended by the lucky fifteen had no legal power still everyone wants to be part of the cool crowd it's not a good time in the world right now to be a country that speaks its mind that's too bad this may soon change as other countries china russia brazil indonesia other countries turkey come to the fore we're going to see some sort of a rejiggering going on over the. next few years some see this rejig has already begun suddenly the popular kids are revealed as being the jerks during his first
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speech of the year when obama was a kid for a ride stepping on a welcome mat but lately his classmates are beginning to rot in the face of the us as it becomes clear that the alleged bad kid is really just the class clown. when you have the united states directly occupying two countries and militarily involved barely covertly and half a dozen others and trying to gin up. revolution in syria and it's the iran thing just seems to be crossing a line fights between classmates come and go but the cheerleaders are always there rooting for their team c.n.n. just replays constantly obama's speech and and it's constantly you know analyzing what he said and they're ignoring what the other one hundred ninety two countries leaders are talking about and while the high school students aren't making the grades if these guys had to get together for. nine months and just sit there and
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hash it out and they weren't allowed to go home until they worked stuff out it would be a different you have a different outcome at least the kids are convinced they're the hottest thing around i brought my shades because i want to look cool and fifty turkey no party. so there you have it high school drama playing out on a global arena for a wrap up of the un general assembly assembly are to correspondent on a sausage are going to joins us now hey there anastasio let's start with the wrap up and then the thing interesting happen there. oh my you know we've been really keeping a close eye on all of that all of the developments taking place of the united nations but really this time around it's only this speech or that speech that has been grabbing attention we've certainly seen the quite curious incident with the israeli prime minister netanyahu where he had pulled out a cartoon of iran's alleged nuclear bomb at the podium addressing the general assembly debate quite a lot of criticism that there are you know of course. stealing the headlines like
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every year around but definitely you know quite a busy week leaders running around making speeches holding bilateral meetings but this session overall has not really brought out any specific outcome so just leaders came out to made their points and now they're getting ready to leave and wrapping up the week really calling it a day and anastasio you just mentioned that chart that benjamin netanyahu brought up obviously this was quite an eventful u.n.g.a. this but the meeting doesn't usually get that much media attention but one person certainly knows how to get out of that was benjamin netanyahu his acne esque wiley coyote bomb drawing demonstrates the red line with iran's nuclear capabilities he was trying to make a serious point about the fact that israel and others cannot wait for iran to achieve a nuclear bomb and that is and he shows the point that people should be concerned about what the second stage of uranium enrichment so instead of making the point
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necessarily he kind of looks more like this to a lot of people you know they don't really take him seriously and batman running around the city with a big bomb scaring folks says he's trying to find a way to to avoid disaster now obviously that's just our funny parallel of what actually happened there this tactic work. well you know it certainly it kind of looks like it has because if he was trying to pull a p.r. stunt it certainly worked because then yahoo holding this cartoon like bomb in front of the general assembly certainly made headlines all over the world and you know we can it's just it's really because according to some reports i've been reading netanyahu took as much as twenty hours a day in the days leading up to making this speech and writing this speech and preparing it and he was said to be very proud in telling reporters it's going to be very newsworthy when he addresses the general assembly and then you know of course he comes out with this cartoon and people just people are just having their lives journalists are definitely having
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a blast you know remembering what that was like and you know jon stewart made a perfect comparison he said you know you're going to pretend that you don't know what a nuclear bomb looks like just run downstairs and look in your basement you know so it was just getting a lot of laughs. who did of course try to make a serious point salut lee and the u.n. of course was founded after world war two it stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law international security economic development social progress human rights and the achievement of world peace but i mean in this year when it seemed to be more like a blame game than anything else you had the palestinian leader blaming israel for hampering progress you had israel threatening iran in badmouthing the us for not going along with their plans and then you had president mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran saying that uncivilized zionists are a threat to iran so so what happened to this international cooperation well let me give you know it's kind of complicated because these kind of blame games do take
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place during the week and of course this is just one week out of the year and we have to keep in mind that there is a big difference between the united nations general assembly debate which take place which we're talking about here right now but there's also the entire year where there is really a lot going on at the united nations so we have to come. be fair and not assume that this finger pointing that we've been seeing throughout the last week is necessarily reflective what of what goes on in the united nations but this particular week you know the same issues the same leaders people have been paranoid about mahmoud ahmadinejad speaking at the united nations but we have to keep in mind that this was the eighth time that i was addressing the general assembly debate and every year it's the same madness surrounding him by that you know he just keeps saying the same things over and over again and then it's true for the other issues that are addressed at the u.n. you know the israeli palestinian question is still unresolved the syrian situation
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of course is still in a stall mates and just how do you how to deal with iran is still a big question apparently to the international community so really the issues that we expect to be handled very quickly when all of these leaders gathered gather of course are still around but you know it's not going to happen overnight and it certainly didn't happen this time around either and on a sauce in the piece that we played by you were a little bit earlier you kind of compared to the whole thing to a little bit of high school but it's a really high schoolers of more like the movie mean girls with all this name calling and rhetoric i would say it's a mix of both megan because you know definitely there is a little lot of negative rhetoric but we like the comparison of the high school because all of these different groups are just completely right there in front of our eyes of the united nations you know like we said the u.s. trying to be the bully and also being kind of the more popular and just kind of pretty kid in the school. trying to bully iran iran is still refusing to be this kind of outsider and still goes well we don't care and you know we see mahmoud
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ahmadinejad walking around with a little you know victory sign being quite playful so and of course the media being the cheerleaders on the ground so really a mix of both and it's you know it's good that the leaders are having fun we're certainly having a fun time watching them and hopefully something good came out of the meetings it was again an annual meeting so what did come out of it if anything we do know that it was michael. last time addressing the u.n. g.a. r.t. correspondent out of stasia chair and i thank you so much for your reporting you. all right switching gears now reverend jesse jackson has made quite an impact on the u.s. throughout the years you probably know his name from his many chrissake for human rights so much so that he was nominated for the nobel peace prize this year his latest cd is brokering an agreement to release to imprison american status sense from prison and gone be a bit dual citizen for serving sentences for treason to talk more about this
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reverend jesse jackson actually joined me earlier he's the founder and president of the rainbow push coalition and hear his thoughts. for weeks ago that none of the means have been executed and through the moral word to be executed based upon their definition of what was a capital of france and so i mean they called the president's office in the gumby called for the democrats with whom a mother crosses the moment cross so he is nasa that we bring a bill bishop to meet with him the foreign minister called i guess it would be allowed such a meeting do they have to burry hold of executions of from two weeks ago and then when the meeting a meeting decided to think one and then they have a moratorium on executions so through the law that would have been lawless and not been spared and two americans were bought them and threw them in so that all thirty people lives have been spared and four have been gotten off from prison i want to
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thank him because he had the choice and the public to take their lives but he made a choice i think the baptism and the people and what inspired you to get involved in this six gone be a and face cases in particular. well approach to use we were trying to get prisoners out of. syria. iraq yugoslavia. liberia because we wanted to and we tried we took the risk i know that gap between governments often not communicate with each other they all to communicate with each of us some time a hostile relationship we met the humanitarian we operate with not based upon logging sovereignty based upon logging law auguste government relations it was a humanitarian plea that given the some good things happening in the government leadership for example a building an educational system there and it's free and about
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a half women they're being educated the best a step in the right direction. healthcare system that is that it is in a hospital and you see the growth of the hospitals and mental cinema is free the building on the on the oceanfront in the gum ball that is in practice tracked by the issue of killings in jail that was a holding up access to free press opening up hogging some prisoners and stopping the execution is the right thing to do it's also a very practical benefits i think the president really making that judgment we tried to get our own government on the not killed troy davis in georgia for the government and not do it in oklahoma and texas law to california we were not successful we were successful in the gambia and we follow that troy davis case closely so let me ask you this what were the circumstances that led up to this point and cumbia without all of the number of executions you said that the two on
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trial are being held for treason and so let me ask you how the circumstances led up to this point and how you were able to broker the deal. the boss the trees and kind of various. sometimes it's positions sometimes it's difficult fences we do it not going to argue the case of what was treason will not which is logical a legal argument of the right which is one of our an argument we made a humanitarian plea at the present almost like asians in the various african union meetings here really all are really low that they were scheduled to die on their schedule to live and to be imprisoned for a long time with their families out hope that the success of this will be of such until we'll be able to get more prisons out of the prison and print more time on intersecting nomic in the hills of the relevant in that country number deserves it
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the president has the power really to make it happen so again we thank him for what he has done and i know that barack obama has actually ramped up u.s. involvement in africa so let's go ahead and switch gears a little bit and talk about that he the wraps up this involvement to go after the lord's resistance army and joseph koni in particular in central africa now this is the army the group invisible children and many others have been comparing against what are your thoughts about this increased presence in the region and in this continent. what do imma say i've got to mention that the gum has now been sent mostly. muslim and christian there coexisting very well that they're related to the politicking to give it to americans so that all the churches around the u.s. embassies and muslims around the world in the gombe have the case and the good sign of a chance of developing because you know there is not very much investment with the violence in the last so that's
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a good sign i think that in the other because the u.s. has a presence with the mission of the government if it's all right. if it's if it's against the will of the use of intelligence devices and the use of drones always question but certainly that must be with the consent of the people involved and you were just talking about drones now president obama has become known as the drone president and one of the platforms that president obama is really ramping up in these elections is twenty twelve elections as his foreign policy experience he is after all the person that caught and captured or killed of some of that lot and now mitt romney on the other hand has no foreign policy experience the visit he did with israel in the u.k. you know america's closest allies they didn't go well and those are our friends so is this a positive for team obama or just a negative for america as a whole that neither one of these are really have the type of foreign policy
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experience that maybe american a that that's point expectantly considering everything that's going on in the middle east and all the i'm an anti american sentiments. urge them on the campaign on the war in iraq was a bad idea when they lost information lost lives and money and on a war on the three three and all the screen on that one brick spencer war and it was the wrong target was going to trigger the well as a do today why but every state budget but there are people least teaches from but a hundred thousand troops in iraq a home that and that is a big those in afghanistan on the way out of them that that's another step in the right direction and so i see the attempt to move the needle against on this very expensive wars in the region i do think that now the middle east has come from so there again because netanyahu has inject himself in the middle of their campaign so they present iraq as talk with him by phone or on the talk with him by
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phone to put him in it puts words and then you're an interesting position that having the president and his opposition talking with them about their policy that they would talk it out and the moment we do not need to expand a war zone in the middle east well we all know that tensions between israel and iran are at a critical point netanyahu did do a pretty good job of drawing that red line at the un general assembly now we also just found out that the mitt romney foreign policy team recommended him for first obama's two thousand and nine executive order that all laws torture what are your thoughts on this will the torture tactics in her purse and this assassination attempt was for the one thing that happened in the case of trying to get the americans the doesn't that and the universe of this event. teach out of the government was we could never ever log against capital punishment because we
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do the most of it because in this or in august it's locking up on that. because we do a lot. when we engage in fact is. this fascination with the model old moral authority it. was the baseball that was run. just might you cannot do this with everyone and their goal but home but you believe little known around the world and reverend jackson for the first time possibly ever we have two men that are running against one another that have no military experience whatsoever mitt romney is a businessman barack obama he's definitely got a bunch of experience as far as working with in congress goes but not necessarily with militaries we were still in afghanistan and pakistan plus were engaged in targeted strikes elsewhere so from a foreign policy standpoint is there or is this a recipe for disaster with these two candidates. there's
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a bill clinton the. milk express for example. for the. boost in the but the fact is you know i have two men will hopefully will make someone's choices and the choices mean the military choices will be able we can find a way out the crisis in there. and then pakistan is going to take strong diplomacy and really multilateral cooperation because not alone him in the ways we went alone in there we it was the the kobo of coalition moving in that basically bush and blair a little and they rolled and then we paid a big price that was learned from their wrong lesson we went into libya in the name of trying to. stop the spread of terrorism and that now with a very unstable government in libya so hopefully the chaos that we're now experiencing will be lessons learned that's another go further in this direction
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all right reverend jesse jackson we really appreciate your time today sir reverend jackson is the founder and president of the rainbow push coalition he's also turning seventy one on october eighth so a very happy early birthday to you sir thank you all right time now for an update on your privacy we want to take a closer look at the ways the government is stripping away your digital rights and also ways that you are making it easier for them as well as for hackers to gain access to your information earlier our cyber guru our t. web producer and you'd like join me to talk about all of this take a look. most would gather that we have today on the internet isn't actually on our own computers anymore even or in the homes we're actually keeping practically everything in like you said including what we listen to what are being numbers somewhere in the cloud as it were and who can monitor that well that's really up to whoever maintains those servers but yeah most information we have isn't actually in
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our possession anymore just kind of out there in the open third parties manage it and in the current legislation that's being proposed in congress and the one that bombing ministrations trying to push out an executive order a lot of that information could easily be intercepted in a matter of a couple of months really depending on how this legislation moves through washington and what we're saying what we're talking about right now is the cloud specifically the amount of data stored so right now we go off of is the one nine hundred eighty six electronic privacy act and that is what they legislate with saying that if our information is in a storage unit for over one hundred eighty days that they can access it was relatively few complications and they don't necessarily need a warrant the problem is that that nine hundred eighty six legislation that wasn't accounting for what we're in what we have to date they know like the wild and or everything he didn't do in there is only one definition of a cloud going back to ninety six actually you tell me they were going to talk about the e.c.p.a. and i for some reason had these linger on my desk remember these oh i don't think.
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of one thousand nine hundred five so we're using a legislation that goes back almost a decade before this and that's what we're using to safeguard our privacy is right now and you would think that under an administration that advertises being you know the most transparent and the most open that people would be secure in the communications today but if you watch our t.v. we know that you know myself and other guest will regularly come on in explain that that's really not the case unfortunately as of late and just this week the american civil liberties union released a bunch of information that they got through a freedom of information act request which kind of proves that by the way yes the white. conducting more warrantless. surveillance than ever before and why it's not just a minute let's go back to the one nine hundred eighty six because i just want to put it in perspective for our viewers to be able to see what's happening in one thousand nine hundred six i think we have a graphic this is apple computer from one thousand nine hundred six it's the apple two g.s.
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complete with floppy disk drives and we entered this was a time when the challenger exploded when we were talking about weight floppy disks were available in fairly certain they have one of those in the the sony and museum of american history now and yet we're so we're using that type of legislation that was made for those computers to dictate what we are doing on computers like your map that you have sitting over there well i mean it's no surprise there is no argument here that people are trying to move different sort of legislation in congress right now that would protect at least do something to our digital rights and how we use the internet and you know i would go ahead and say that you know my argument personally is that i think there are some restrictions that a certain necessarily restrictions but there should be laws implemented to keep things up to snuff as it will when we talk about surveillance so that's a whole other whole other can of worms and unfortunately we're you know we're using these these antiquated legislations in order to decide what is just out in the open for the government and we're seeing that it's kind of scary now so what these
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things are we basically opening up the door to our lives to the government because of these old legislations. absolutely precisely yes if we talk about are you ready to talk about the reading of the talk about this i am so eager so you know let's go back a couple of days a.c.l.u. they've filed a request back earlier this year and you know we were going over the documents they finally got yesterday and i'm sorry really this week and what it shows is that under president obama the white house has authorized more of these particular kind of surveillance court orders to monitor i mean. communications more in the last two years and in the entire decade before that there's a couple different things that they use one is called a trap and trace surveillance the other one is called a pen register and what these do is whether it's your phone conversations or your internet activity the government can go ahead and they can have a judge sign off saying collect that information but because they don't collect all
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of the information it's much easier to get these to set in stone in effect last year it's like thirty seven thousand of these happened which is three hundred a day or so i'm not sure i'm a mathematician but pretty sure it's roughly on there so three hundred times a day judge says sure thing police you can go ahead and access this information using a pen register or a trap and trace surveillance device and what that does is a lets authorities go in and they can see who you're calling and who's calling you how long your phone calls last where they're rationing from where they're going to but then also when we look at to the whole internet side of it these devices also let the government or you know police force and they can monitor who you're e-mailing who's sending the e-mail how big the e-mail is what the subject line of the e-mail is so even if i really heavily encrypt something and i send you a message and it goes from in your place to make it in the subject line says hey meghan this is really important don't let anyone know that the government will still see that subject line him in
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a civilian part because those are two things that you can encrypt you know you're sending it so you or your subject not only can you not encrypt it but the whole point of these intrepid trace surveillance technologies is that the government can get away with doing so many of these thirty seven thousand a year in two thousand and eleven because there are no contents or no content surveillance. that was archie repartees there blake and that's going to do it for news for tonight but be sure to tune in next week for a whole new lineup first up seventeen days ago and ambassador chris stevens was killed in libya when protesters set fire to the safe house he was hiding and today the intelligence community sought to clarify why the u. . obama administration officials gave out incorrect and misleading information about the attack the intelligence community formally said they now believe the attack on the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack next week will find out why the obama administration was spreading false information and information certainly isn't the
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only thing that the obama administration is keeping under wraps and then on an analysis of open government requests filed by the bloomberg group shows that obama has failed to create a transparent administration despite his campaign promises is this the most secretive administration in american history we'll explore that topic in the days ahead and last but not least if you thought the t.s.a. was invasive before get ready for the next generation of american aviation safety standards but this one doesn't involve copying a feel or those very revealing body scanner images within the next year or two the department of homeland security will instantly know everything about your body clothes and luggage with a new laser based molecular scanner a fired from one hundred sixty four feet away and best part is you won't even know about it scaredy at bolton in next week for all the details those are just a few of the stories we have in store for you next week along with more news in.

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